Consortium News: 30-05-2025,
By rebuking the U.N. for its legitimate interest in cases involving U.K. citizens while throwing open the door to Israel, the Starmer regime has gone beyond Orwell or Kafka.
British police outside the Israeli embassy in London during a Palestine solidarity demonstration on Oct. 9, 2023. (Alisdaire Hickson, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)
By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk
There is a stunning contrast between the access given by the U.K. to the Israeli embassy to influence prosecutions of anti-genocide journalists and protestors, and the repudiation by the U.K. of United Nations querying such prosecutions.
The U.K. has rebuked the U.N. for “outside interference.”
I cannot state enough how unusual it is for the U.K. to give direct access to the Israeli embassy to the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service, in order for the Israeli government to influence the prosecution of U.K. citizens.
This is not about extradition, in which case there may be treaty arrangements for direct contact between prosecutors. It is just not normal nor right for an embassy to be involved with domestic prosecutions in this way.
This is one of a series of heavily redacted emails seen by The Guardian, Middle East Eye and lawyers for Palestine Action.
They show the Israeli government being granted direct influence with U.K. police and prosecutors, to urge the prosecution of U.K.